“It’s elitist of Professor Warren to look down at the decisions Scott Brown made to put himself through college and rise above the circumstances of his life,’’ campaign manager Jim Barnett said. “Scott has fought and scraped for everything he’s got.’’

“What a dumb thing to say,” said Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, who added that Brown already has alienated much of his Tea Party base by being too moderate.

Clearly the Brown campaign is nervous about Warren's burst onto the stage. But the class warfare approach is a dangerous one, something that could singe Brown as much as Warren.

While Brown has told us of his troubled childhood, Warren did not grow up with a silver spoon in her mouth. The daughter of middle class parents who had to scrape together after her father suffered a heart attack and was drowning in medical bills, Warren took a waitress job to help her mother pay the bills. The job allowed her to keep her clothes on.

The Brown camp will be making a huge mistake if they try to make class warfare on a woman who raised herself on her cowboy country bootstraps. Being the enemy of banks is a far better place to be in America these days than being its friend.